Rockfish With Citrus Brown Butter Sauce
By: Emily Heston
Published: Monday, November 30, 2009 - 4:54pm

Ingredients




2 fillets of rockfish, skin on
3 tablespoons butter
Juice of 2 lemons 

1 cup white wine
Salt and pepper

Preparation

1 Heat butter over medium high heat. Salt and pepper rockfish to taste. When butter is bubbly, lay fillets in butter, flesh side down. Allow to brown (3- 5 minutes). 2 Flip over filets, allow the skin side to crisp in the butter (about 3 minutes).  Remove when done.  Flesh should be flaky.  Cover to keep warm. 3 Pour lemon juice and wine into the butter and gently scrape up any brown bits from the fish (leaving them in the sauce). 4 Stir sauce occasionally, and watch it closely. Continue to cook until it is thick, golden brown and syrupy. The spoon should leave a track in the sauce when it is finished. 5 Garnish with lemon slices and serve.

About


This sauce is simple to prepare, the intense zesty taste combined with the syrupy texture is a luxurious blanket to spread over the fish.